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MissesWanderful
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Can anyone tell me why my ingredients are full but I don't have the right things to brew potions? Should I (and is there a way) to delete certain ingredients so I can make room for more of the rare ones or the ones I can use to brew potions?
Also, is every battle worth fighting? Are there priority battles you would choose over others? (Referring to the colorful ones you encounter when walking)
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Go to Briefcase
Then to Vault
Then click on the ingredients icon (second icon on top)
Find the ingredient you want to delete
Hit INFO
Then MANAGE
At that point, you can select how many you want to delete then just hit "Delete". :)
Also you can manage your ingredients from the potion page. Click the recipes then scroll down and click on any items you have for potions that you will never brew.
ie. I'm an auror so I don't brew invigoration potions so all the ingredients I trash.
I personally don't feel that dawdle draught is effective enough to warrant valuable potion storage space so I delete all those ingredients too, even the claw from portmanteau.
I like to manage via the potions area myself. Also note how many ingredients you have versus how many are needed for the potion. You probably don’t need 50 frog brains. There’s a lot of very common ingredients that spawn all the time. You don’t need to horde them. The only ones I horde are dragon claw (if I can ever get them!!), unicorn hair, and toadstool.
Exactly what everyone else said! The only thing I’d add that @Dogoutlaw already touched on is there are more of some ingredients required to brew your potions. Potent exstimulo, for example, requires 4 bitterroot, 6 snowdrop, and 2 re’em blood, so I keep plenty of those on hand since that’s the potion I have on tap most often.
Some ingredients, also mentioned above, are harder to get ahold of because they’re only awarded through portkeys. Those include powdered dragon claw, unicorn hair, and hermit crab shell.
When it comes to Foundables you encounter while out wandering around, pretty much all of them are important in the early stages of the game, because you want to earn player XP to level up. Earning family XP (families are different types of Foundables like Care of Magical Creatures and Dark Arts) will get you scrolls needed to completed lessons on your chosen profession’s skill tree. Fortress battles earn you challenge XP, which are also needed for some lessons, particularly as you work your way down the skill tree.
Foundables with a beam of light (green, orange, or red) are high, severe, or emergency level. They’re typically pretty rare, like Minerva, Newt, or Albus. When I encounter one of these, particularly severe or emergency, I use both a potent exstimulo and a dawdle draught potion to help ensure success. That combination hasn’t failed me yet, though it’s not always guaranteed. You don't need to go after these, especially if you've already placed the image for one you just stumbled across, but I tend to go after them regardless because they award more family and player XP than the medium or low level threats.
More about placing images: Once you place an image for a Foundable on a registry page, it’s not so important to go after that one anymore, though they’ll still earn you XP. Once you’ve place all images on a registry page, you can Prestige the page. At that point, the page resets and even more fragments of each Foundable are now required to place the images. You keep doing this to work your way through bronze, silver, and gold frames on each registry page.
Prestiging (or resetting) a registry page feels like doing a lot of hard work for nothing the first time you do it, but it’s worth it because you earn the most family XP for images that haven’t been placed yet. When you fill a page with images, it looks nice, but you won’t be earning the maximum family XP for each Foundable on that page if you leave it that way.
Once you make it past Rank 9 on each Foundable Family, you’ll earn four scrolls every time you increase your rank after that. The required Family XP to increase rank tops out at 100. Required challenge XP on the other hand keeps on increasing every time you rank up.
Good luck out there! You’ll be an expert in no time at all!
Also, that’s a cool name @MissesWanderful
I love all the creative names I’ve seen in this community forum!
Oh, and I can no longer edit the comment above, so I'll just correct myself here: I meant to say above that Fortress Challenges earn challenge XP, and leveling up your challenge rank earns you spell books. Spell books become important as you work your way down your profession's lesson plan. Early on though, you mostly need scrolls, scrolls, and more scrolls. You earn those by gathering family XP (the Foundables you encounter while wandering around) to increase rank on any of the ten different families. Family XP can also be awarded through portkeys and fortress challenges, but not always.
In addition, there are events (so far they've been called Brilliant Events) during which you catch brilliant foundables, complete event related tasks, and place images on special registry pages. Ranking up on brilliant family registry pages awards 5 scrolls! Sure, it's only one more than other registry pages, but it's still pretty cool.
In theory you could max out your ingredients capacity by having 250 sneezewort and nothing else in your inventory. Then you could never pick up more ingredients or make potions.
Manage away, and don't worry too much about deleting any one ingredient to just a few remaining.
I tend to chop most 10+ stores in half unless I an certain that something I plan to use will not appear soon enough.
Wow the amount of knowledge shared!! You guys rock! Thank you so much!